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Title:Religion and politics in a multi-ethnic society, Nigeria: reflections of a Christian theologian
Author:Manus, Ukachukwu ChrisISNI
Year:2006
Periodical:Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies
Volume:38
Issue:1-2
Pages:1-26
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:religion
politics
plural society
Christianity
Islam
Abstract:Nigeria has inhabitants of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This paper explores the nexus between religion and politics in the context of the political manipulation by political demagogues of the three major Nigerian religions, viz. Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religions. Adopting the phenomenological method, it critically studies these religions in order to show that in a multicultural polity like Nigeria, religion remains a motive force. It argues that Islam and Christianity should be held as equal actors in the quest for justice and the rule of law in Nigeria's fledgling democracy. Politicization of religion in Nigeria must be shunned because of its dysfunctional consequences in an overheated, religiously pluralistic, polity. Notes, ref., sum. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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